For anyone wanting to add an animated element to a website, you won’t go far wrong if you use Hype by Tumult. This new tool makes it easy for designers to create animated graphics without writing the code.
‘WordPress’ Archives
How to Show Content Only on The Home Page of WordPress Sites
If you are using your WordPress installation as a CMS for a website, you may well not be using the blog posts list as your landing page. In this case, you may want to have a page that displays content, such as a <div> only when that page is the landing page.
How to Exclude a Category From Your WordPress Home Page
If you have a WordPress site with a list of posts for your home page, it is easy to exclude a category so it doesn’t appear in the list. You might want to do this if you have a category that appears as a page in it’s own right, such as a client area on the Andrew Olney Wedding Photography site for example. (The client weddings are in the category of Weddings and have their own button on the site navigation.)
Updating WordPress Fails – How to Fix Update Problems
If your WordPress update fails, there may be a quick solution at hand that may not involve manually restoring several critical files.
Add Custom Menus to WordPress 3+ Themes
WordPress 3 added plenty of new features – and one of the most useful was the ability to create and add custom navigation or menus to your themes. Whilst they are very simple to implement, they are also extremely flexible, allowing you to add not only pages, categories or posts to your navigation, but also custom links.
How To Add Featured Image Support To A WordPress Theme
If you look beside this post, you will see an icon or image of the WordPress badge. This was added to the post so it displays as a ‘Featured Image’ or Post Thumbnail and it can be set so it clicks through to the blog post.
Adding Featured Image support to a WordPress Theme is a pretty simple process and aside from the styling, requires only a bit of cut and paste.
WordPress Training in London
Private WordPress Training is one of the services on offer from Haiz Design.
If you have a WordPress blog and want to get the most out of it, with some personalised one-to-one training in the comfort of your own home, see this page on the Haiz Design website to find out more: http://www.haizdesign.com/wordpress-training.php.
I will teach you learn how to use WordPress, customise it, write and edit posts, add categories and tags, work with comments and allow multiple users to contribute to your blog. You will also learn how to update your WordPress site and extend it to include new features using plug-ins.
This service is available in London UK only however, a Skype-based training service is also available.
See this page on WordPress Training In London for more details.
Setting Featured Image For Posts in WordPress
WordPress added the ability to set a Featured Image for your posts in version 2.9. There are a couple of steps you need to take to get them to show up on your posts, so here is the easy way to do this without using a plugin:
Error Establishing a Database Connection
If you are suddenly greeted with a white page with a single line of text telling you that there has been an error establishing a database connection, don’t panic.
If you are using WordPress to drive your site or blog, there are a couple of causes (and I’ve had problems with this over the weekend myself,) and a couple of likely solutions…
Adding Links to WordPress Blog Posts or Pages
Here is a very quick video to help you see how easy it is adding links in WordPress to your blog posts and pages:
